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President Donald Trump traveled to Texas on Tuesday to get an up-close look at the devastating damage caused by Tropical Storm Harvey. Unprecedented flooding has driven thousands out of their homes throughout the region. In the Greater Houston area, some of those displaced by catastrophic flooding are finding refuge inside local mosques. “They’re not just

WASHINGTON — Pentagon officials said Tuesday that National Guard assets are at full readiness to assist in the unfolding disaster in Texas wrought by Tropical Storm Harvey. Maj. Gen. James C. Witham, director of domestic operations for the National Guard, told Pentagon reporters that up to 30,000 guardsmen as well as a U.S. naval amphibious

A visiting assistant professor at the University of Tampa was “relieved of duty” after describing the destruction from Hurricane Harvey as “instant karma” for Texans who voted Republican last year, the school said Tuesday. Kenneth Storey, whose LinkedIn profile says he lives in Winter Park, Fla., and also teaches at Hillsborough Community College, ignited online

Imagine the scenario: Your house is underwater. You’re desperately looking for food and water for your family, and you finally find a store that’s open. But as you go to pay for what you need, one of the few human necessities — clean water — costs ten times what it normally does. RELATED: Joel Osteen’s

Hillary Clinton’s case isn’t interesting enough to the public to justify releasing the FBI’s files on her, the bureau said this week in rejecting an open-records request by a lawyer seeking to have the former secretary of state punished for perjury. Ty Clevenger, the lawyer, has been trying to get Mrs. Clinton and her personal

Social media criticized Pastor Joel Osteen for apparently not allowing misplaced Hurricane Harvey victims to use his massive Houston-based Lakewood church for shelter over the weekend. Many questioned why the wealthy pastor refused to house the victims or publicly donate funds to relief efforts. Osteen, 54, has an estimated net worth of $40 million, according

WASHINGTON — On the 54th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, religious leaders and political activists staged separate marches here and in Charlottesville, Va., to call for many of the same things the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had championed in his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. In the nation’s capital on Monday,

Nearly a month before a car driven by an alleged neo-Nazi plowed into counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 12, white supremacists planning the “Unite the Right” rally joked about using vehicles to run over their opponents. That message and thousands of other conversations among white supremacists were leaked from a chat app called Discord